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6 INFRASTRUCTURE AUSTRALIA APRIL 2010
Chief Executive
by Peter Taylor
Good infrastructure is the key
to Australian productivity
growth. It underpins the
delivery of essential services
and is crucial to the development of our
country. It is critical to our high standard of
living and international competitiveness.
For more than two decades, Engineers
Australia had been warning governments
that maintenance of existing infrastructure
had been sorely neglected; and there was in-
su cient investment in new infrastructure.
In 1999 and 2001, we backed up our
concerns with targeted investigations and
published our rst Australian Infrastruc-
ture Report Cards. ese were indepen-
dent assessments of our key infrastructure
at a national level.
From 2003 to 2005, we turned our
attention to whole-of-life costs and
performance of infrastructure at state
and territory level, with a separate report
for each. In September 2005, I released
our consolidated view for Australia, as
a whole, in a televised address at the
National Press Club in Canberra.
As you might expect, we found that
some states did better than others. But gen-
erally, most infrastructure was assessed as
only adequate for its purpose. e reports
have been well received by government,
industry and the media and have generated
useful community discussion
Since the release of the reports, we have
also seen encouraging changes in the way
state and territory governments approach
infrastructure planning.
At a national level, we have seen the
establishment of the government ad-
visory body Infrastructure Australia,
which played such an important part in
the government s response to the global
nancial crisis. Infrastructure Australia
is also developing a strategic blueprint for
our nation s future infrastructure planning
and implementation.
e latest round of our independent
review of key infrastructure in each state
and territory is well under way, and the
release of the Victorian report in early
March has already drawn a great deal
of interest across government and the
media.
e other state and territory reports
will be progressively launched at media
events and other functions throughout
the year, a er which we will also bring
together the national picture.
Updates on each release will be available
at www.engineersaustralia.org.au/irc.
Peter Taylor ... "Since the release of the reports, we
have seen encouraging changes in the way state
and territory governments approach infrastructure
planning."
Report cards have led to "encouraging changes"